Direct Fin solutions & Metropolitan life are Spammers
Arent you Sick of getting calls on your PERSONAL mobile number offering you insuarance, policies or new cell phone contracts? Well i am too! I get at least 1 call a week, and to be Honest i am SICK of it.
I just received a call from Direct Fin Solutions who are representing Metropolitan Life.
Who the HELL gave them the right to call me on Personal Number? As a rule i NEVER grant permission to anyone to contact me. So what Direct Fin Solutions and Metropolitan Life are doing is ILLEGAL and SPAM.
Refer to the following post
The Protection of Personal Information Bill
The rational behind the Protection of Personal Information Bill in summary is to ensure that…
* Personal information must be obtained fairly and lawfully and disclosing the purpose (purpose driven)
* Personal information must be used only for the original specified purpose
* Consent is obtained as far as it is practical and offer an opt-out option (consent)
* Personal information must be accurate and up to date and deleted if requested (control)
* Personal information must be accessible to the subject
* Personal information must be kept securely and destroyed after its purpose is completed
(Hat Tip to Noto)
So here’s the deal, If anyone else has received calls from Direct Fin solutions, respond back here. Its high time SA companies stop abusing our information and do some REAL marketing (See: Inbound marketing & social media marketing). Companies that insist in intruding in the lives of potential customers are going to FAIL! in the future, it will not work! Lets take these guys to task!
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I love to play phone tag with those guys. This what I do: Tell them you are interested but very busy (in a meeting or something), and you need their number to call them back. They can’t give you any number because all these characters work in some sweatshop call center. This is where the fun starts…. Ask them the classic question, “if you phoned me than how come you don’t have a number”…demand an answer to that question. Eventually they give up, say they will phone later and add you back to the call list. They have a system that dials numbers automatically. Odds are that somebody else will phone you later or the next day. Start from the top again. I once went about 12 days with Nedbank before they finally gave up on me
You can contact the Direct Marketing Assocation and have your name and number taken off of these lists but you should bear in mind that having done this you may never receive a call with information that is pertinent to what you want. One way to handle this is to provide enough information to make sure that you only receive calls / offers that match your needs. And, then finally remember these guys and gals who call are simple trying to earn a living so if you are not interested then simple say so because they are generally measured on the number of calls they make, people they talk to and then sales made – every time they call some who hasn’t been honest enough to tell them so; they get penalised for it.